Making The Case For Social Networks in Organizational Settings

Olga Howard presented on the topic of Making the Case for Social Networks in Organizational Settings at the IA Summit of 2009.

The broader question this paper asks is this.

If we agree that the value of an organization is its people, then we will also agree that the value of the organization is the sum of the knowledge of its people. If this is true, and your organization is operating in an email platform, your employees only have access to a small portion of that knowledge.

Read the paper to get the entire context (PDF 2.6 MB):

Audio will be available via podcast from Boxes and Arrows in the next couple of weeks. This just in…the Gremlins messed up the audio but we have another opportunity for audio at the IAS IxD Redux here in DC.

A great example of the benefit of Contextual Blueprints created by social platforms:

Yet more evidence to support my argument that people who use social networks at work don’t waste time.

Read the article: http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090402/tc_nm/us_work_internet_tech_life

Here’s a different angle on the subject. In Economist.com they discuss the pitfalls of trying to create a collaborative workplace. I understand their point but what I’m talking about in my paper is meeting our peers through the context of their everyday experience. The kind of getting to know you that we currently experience in Twitter.